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Hybrid Cloud Model
Hybrid Cloud
T heHybrid Cloud is a mixture of public and private cloud. Non-critical activities are performed using public
cloud while the critical activities are performed using private cloud.
Benefits
There are many benefits of deploying cloud as hybrid cloud model. The following diagram shows some of those
benefits:
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SCALABILITY
It offers both features of public cloud scalability and private cloud scalability.
FLEXIBILITY
It offers both secure resources and scalable public resources.
COST EFFICIENCIES
Public cloud are more cost effective than private, therefore hybrid cloud can have this saving.
SECURITY
Private cloud in hybrid cloud ensures higher degree of security.
Disadvantages
NETWORKING ISSUES
Networking becomes complex due to presence of private and public cloud.
SECURITY COMPLIANCE
It is necessary to ensure that cloud services are compliant with organization's security policies.
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INFRASTRUCTURAL DEPENDENCY
The hybrid cloud model is dependent on internal IT infrastructure, therefore it is necessary to ensure redundancy
across data centers.
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Community Cloud Model
Community Cloud
T heCommunity Cloud allows system and services to be accessible by group of organizations. It shares
the infrastructure between several organizations from a specific community. It may be managed internally or by the
third-party.
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Benefits
There are many benefits of deploying cloud as community cloud model. The following diagram shows some of
those benefits:
COST EFFECTIVE
Community cloud offers same advantage as that of private cloud at low cost.
Sharing Between Organizations
Community cloud provides an infrastructure to share cloud resources and capabilities among several
organizations.
SECURITY
Community cloud is comparatively more secure than the public cloud.
ISSUES
Since all data is housed at one location, one must be careful in storing data in community cloud because it
might be accessible by others.
It is also challenging to allocate responsibilities of governance, security and cost.
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lnfrastructure-as-a-service
I aaSprovides access to fundamental resources such as physical machines, virtual machines, virtual storage,
etc., Apart from these resources, the IaaS also offers:
Virtual machine disk storage
Virtual local area network (VLANs)
Load balancers
IP addresses
Software bundles
All of the above resources are made available to end user via server virtualization. Moreover, these resources
are accessed by the customers as if they own them.
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Benefits
IaaS allows the cloud provider to freely locate the infrastructure over the Internet in a cost-effective manner. Some
of the key benefits of IaaS are listed below:
Full Control of the computing resources through Administrative Access to VMs.
Flexible and Efficient renting of Computer Hardware.
Portability, Interoperability with Legacy Applications.
FULL CONTROL OVER COMPUTING RESOURCES THROUGH ADMINISTRATIVE ACCESS
TO VMS
IaaS allows the consumer to access computing resources through administrative access to virtual machines in the
following manner:
Consumer issues administrative command to cloud provider to run the virtual machine or to save data on
cloud's server.
Consumer issues administrative command to virtual machines they owned to start web server or installing
new applications.
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FLEXIBLE AND EFFICIENT RENTING OF COMPUTER HARDWARE
IaaS resources such as virtual machines, storages, bandwidth, IP addresses, monitoring services, firewalls, etc.,
all are made available to the consumers on rent. The consumer has to pay based the length of time a consumer
retains a resource. Also with administrative access to virtual machines, the consumer can also run any software,
even a custom operating system.
PORTABILITY, INTEROPERABILITY WITH LEGACY APPLICATIONS
It is possible to maintain legacy between applications and workloads between IaaS clouds. For example, network
applications such as web server, e-mail server that normally runs on consumer-owned server hardware can also
be run from VMs in IaaS cloud.
Issues
IaaS shares issues with PaaS and SaaS, such as Network dependence and browser based risks. It also have
some specific issues associated with it. These issues are mentioned in the following diagram:
COMPATIBILITY WITH LEGACY SECURITY VULNERABILITIES
Because IaaS offers the consumer to run legacy software in provider's infrastructure, therefore it exposes
consumers to all of the security vulnerabilities of such legacy software.
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VIRTUAL MACHINE SPRAWL
The VM can become out of date with respect to security updates because IaaS allows the consumer to operate the
virtual machines in running, suspended and off state. However, the provider can automatically update such VMs,
but this mechanism is hard and complex.
ROBUSTNESS OF VM-LEVEL ISOLATION
IaaS offers an isolated environment to individual consumers through hypervisor. Hypervisor is a software layer that
includes hardware support for virtualization to split a physical computer into multiple virtual machines.
DATA ERASE PRACTICES
The consumer uses virtual machines that in turn uses the common disk resources provided by the cloud provider.
When the consumer releases the resource, the cloud provider must ensure that next consumer to rent the resource
does not observe data residue from previous consumer.
Characteristics
Here are the characteristics of IaaS service model:
Virtual machines with pre-installed software.
Virtual machines with pre-installed Operating Systems such as Windows, Linux, and Solaris.
On-demand availability of resources.
Allows to store copies of particular data in different locations.
The computing resources can be easily scaled up and down.
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